2022 Best Value Housing Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Housing Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Housing is the 310th most popular major in the country with 911 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, housing graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $43,433 and had an average of $24,194 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Plains States region, there were 73 housing graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,950 and $25,424 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 70 housing graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,786 and $25,576 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Housing Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in housing. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great housing programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the housing program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Housing Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for plains states region bachelor’s degree housing students.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Housing in the Plains States Region

#1

Missouri State University - Springfield

Springfield, Missouri

#2 in overall quality

$16,725 Average Net Price

$39,271 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Missouri State University - Springfield. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Housing Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region. Springfield, Missouri is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s housing degrees to 35 students in 2019-2020.

Missouri State did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Housing Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for Missouri State is $16,725 for Plains States Region Bachelor’s Degree Housing students.

Full Missouri State Housing Report

#2

University of Missouri - Columbia

Columbia, Missouri

#1 in overall quality

$16,001 Average Net Price

$44,737 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Housing Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Missouri - Columbia landed the #2 spot on the list. This large school is located in Columbia, Missouri, and it awarded 35 bachelors’s housing degrees in 2019-2020.

Mizzou not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Housing Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for Mizzou is $16,001 for Plains States Region Bachelor’s Degree Housing students.

The student loan default rate at the school is 3.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 89%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Full University of Missouri - Columbia Housing Report

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Housing

Notes and References

References

• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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